Nursing Theory

Identify your specialty area of NP practice (Pediatrics). Select a nursing theory, borrowed theory, or interdisciplinary theory provided in the lesson plan or one of your own findings. Address the following:

Origin
Meaning and scope
Logical adequacy
Usefulness and simplicity
Generalizability
Testability

Finally, provide an example how the theory could be used to improve or evaluate the quality of practice in your specific setting. What rationale can you provide that validates the theory as applicable to the role of the nurse practitioner.

Nursing theorist to choose from:
Florence Nightingale, Virginia Henderson, Dorothy Johnson, Nola J. Pender, Sister Callista Roy, Imogene King, Betty Neuman or any other nursing theorist you see fit.

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